Ezekiel 25:2
Good News Translation
"Mortal man," he said, "denounce the country of Ammon.

New Revised Standard Version
Mortal, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Contemporary English Version
Ezekiel, son of man, condemn the people of Ammon

New American Bible
Son of man, turn toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.

thy face

Ezekiel 6:2 Son of man set thy face towards the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them.

Ezekiel 20:46 Son of man, set thy face against the way of the south, and drop towards the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field.

Ezekiel 21:2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:

Ezekiel 35:2 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

the Ammonites

Ezekiel 21:28-32 And thou son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach, and thou shalt say: O sword, O sword, come out of the scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and to glitter, . . .

Genesis 19:38 The younger also bore a son, and she called his name Ammon; that is, the son of my people: he is the father of the Ammonites unto this day.

Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, and I will visit upon every one that hath the foreskin circumcised. . . .

Jeremiah 25:21 And Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon.

Jeremiah 27:3 And thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon: by the hand of the messengers that are come to Jerusalem to Sedecias the king of Juda.

Jeremiah 49:1-6 Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities? . . .

Amos 1:13-15 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border. . . .

Zephaniah 2:8-11 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the blasphemies of the children of Ammon, with which they reproached my people, and have magnified themselves upon their borders. . . .

Context
A Prophecy Against Ammon
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 2Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and thou shalt prophesy of them.3And thou shalt say to the children of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my sanctuary, because it was profaned: and upon the land of Israel, because it was laid waste: and upon the house of Juda, because they are led into captivity:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 49:1
Against the children of Ammon. Thus saith the Lord: Hath Israel no sons? or hath he no heir? Why then hath Melchom inherited Gad: and his people dwelt in his cities?

Ezekiel 21:2
Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and let thy speech flow towards the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel:

Ezekiel 25:1
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Ezekiel 28:21
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,

Amos 1:13
Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath ripped up the women with child of Galaad to enlarge his border.

Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha, the dryness of thorns, and heaps of salt, and a desert even for ever: the remnant of my people shall make a spoil of them, and the residue of my nation shall possess them.

Ezekiel 25:1
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